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单词 whyne
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whyneadv.

Forms: Middle English quein, quheyne, qwyne, quhene, Middle English wheyn, Middle English–1500s quhyne, Middle English whyne, 1500s quhyn.
Etymology: Contraction of whethen adv.; compare syne adv. and conj.
Scottish and northern dialect. Obsolete.
= whence adv. and conj.
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a1400 Seuyn Sages (W.) 3271 The erl said,..‘Wheym [read Wheyn] es this faire lady?’ The knight said, ‘Sir,..Sho es cumen from myne awyn cuntre’.
a1400 (a1325) Cursor Mundi (Vesp.) l. 7796 Quein cums þou?
?a1400 Morte Arth. 3503 ‘Fro qwyne come þou’,..quod þe kynge thane, ‘That knawes kynge Arthure, and his knyghttes also?’
c1440 Alphabet of Tales 196 He askid hym whyne he was, & who was his fadur & his moder.
1487 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (St. John's Cambr.) vii. 240 Scho askit hym..quhat he wes, And quhyne he com, and quhar he gais.
c1520 M. Nisbet New Test. in Scots (1903) II. John vii. 27 Quhen Crist sal cum, na man wate of quhyn he is.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1924; most recently modified version published online December 2020).
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